Dr Ehrman
Thank you for answering my questions. I just find it weird that after Jesus is resurrection nobody recognize him at first. Did he change his clothes, his hair. LOL In Luke account it says h they were prevented from recognizing him. But yet in the longer version in Mark he appears in another form. On a side note I want to say thank you. Your books and videos on you tube and the blog have answered a great number of questions I have had for some time regarding the Bible and the people in it.

I don’t think Paul knew Mark’s ending or the author of Mark’s ending knew Paul — so it would be hard to synthesize the two into a coherent theological view. MORPHE is a Greek word that means something more than physical shape, although it entails shape. It has something more to do with essential character. (note in the Philippians passage that after having been in the “form” of God he comes in the “form” of a slave; so it doesn’t just mean physical appearance)

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By: BroTruth101 https://ehrmanblog.org/snake-handling-gospel-mark/comment-page-2/#comment-89182
Mon, 22 Apr 2019 20:39:24 +0000http://ehrmanblog.org/?p=6958#comment-89182Dr Ehrman
Like you I believe that the added verses in Mark 16: 9-20 were added. But I do have one question. In the long version Jesus appears to the two disciplines in another form Mark 16:12 The Greek word μορφῇ morphē is used, what is interesting is the same Greek word is used in Philippians 2:6 when he is in the form of God. Do you think that form is the same as he had after his resurrection is the same form he had in heaven.
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By: rjbase89 https://ehrmanblog.org/snake-handling-gospel-mark/comment-page-2/#comment-24653
Sun, 14 Sep 2014 18:37:00 +0000http://ehrmanblog.org/?p=6958#comment-24653Ah yes… the poison drinkers. It’s certain that they exist, or at least did. But it is hard to get anything out of them ’cause it seems that they have all mysteriously died of “other causes”.
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By: Bart Ehrman https://ehrmanblog.org/snake-handling-gospel-mark/#comment-24247
Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:50:38 +0000http://ehrmanblog.org/?p=6958#comment-24247In reply to sticksofkansas.

Many thanks, Dr. Ehrman!
-Say, I don’t know how often you make your way back to Lawrence KS, but if it’d ever be possible, I’d like to meetup sometime so I could get your autograph in my three books of yours. I’m a huge fan of yours (and Dr. Amy Jill Levine as well).

Yes, a good reply would take … a book. I’d suggest your student-friend read some. 🙂 In the meantime, if in fact we “know” whenever a scribe changed a text, why is it that bona fide textual scholars who have spent thirty years of their lives studying these issues intensely do not agree with one another over what the original text was in so many places? If your friend knows the answer to all the textual problems, he could become very rich indeed….

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By: sticksofkansas https://ehrmanblog.org/snake-handling-gospel-mark/#comment-24216
Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:19:19 +0000http://ehrmanblog.org/?p=6958#comment-24216I had a Bible student at an unnamed Bible college who posted this comment regarding issues with New Testament text where brackets are found: “It’s simple. Someone copies the text and omits a verse, runs off to the north with it. Someone else copies the same text in it’s entirety and runs off to the south. The text with the omitted verse is the mistake … The way the NT was transmitted makes additions or omissions obvious. It could be called miraculous that we can and do spot them. No other ancient text can make that claim. When someone adds to or subtracts from the NT, we see it … Who could have changed the NT? No one without it being spotted and this glaring truth is proofed by our ability to reconstruct the NT. The NT is unique in the ancient world and is unalterable. That doesn’t mean people wouldn’t try but once again, we can spot it. That’s the miracle of the NT. It’s transmission makes alterations obvious.﻿”

I’ve tried to dissect the conjectures in this logic pattern, but cannot find a Cliff-Notes version how to respond to this. We cannot illustrate collaboration between the many New Testament scribes in antiquity .. or can we? I don’t gather there was a central authority when the first manuscripts were developed and copies were traced when some were transmitted to the North, others to the South, and others to Ethiopia, etc.

This might be long winded, but I’d like to hear a response from you better educated Bible scholars (I could only dream of becoming).

I think they included the ending because it was the fullest account of Jesus’ meeting with his disciples available. And maybe they thought the snakes and poison business simply corroborated their views about Jesus as having astounding powers.